Star-studded Korean film to shoot in Whidbey Island, Monroe

A camera crew shoots a scene during filming of the movie “Late Autumn” along Ballard Avenue Northwest during filming in the Seattle neighborhood on Thursday January 14, 2010. (Joshua Trujillo/Seattlepi.com)

Cast and crew of “Late Autumn” have just two weeks and a few more locations to go before they wrap work on the film that stars Hyun Bin, a South Korean actor so admired by Asian women I’ve gotten a couple emails thanking me for the coverage and begging me for pictures.

In the film, the dashing young Hyun plays a counterfeiter who in one whirlwind weekend meets and falls in love with a prisoner — played by Chinese actress Tang Wei — who’s come home to Seattle for her mother’s funeral.